继《世界新闻报》因窃听丑闻而被迫停刊后。今天，英国各大报纸刊均整版刊登了默多克亲笔签名的道歉信。信中说：我们为所发生的严重的不当行为道歉，为对相关人士造成的伤害深深道歉。

　　BBC News with Iain Purdon

　　默多克在英国各大报纸登道歉信

　　The media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has told a British parliamentary committee that he was not responsible for the phone-hacking scandal at one of his newspapers, the now-defunct

　　News of the World. He said he may have lost sight of what was happening there, but the paper had represented less than 1% of his worldwide business. Mr Murdoch said he’d been shocked and ashamed when he learnt that the News of the World had hacked the phone of a murdered schoolgirl. And in his closing address, he gave this apology。

　　"I would like all the victims of phone hacking to know how completely and deeply sorry I am. Apologising cannot take back what has happened. Still I want them to know the depth of my regret for the horrible invasions into their lives. I fully understand their ire. And I intend to work tirelessly to merit their forgiveness."

　　Mr Murdoch gave evidence alongside his son James, who is a senior executive in the media empire. Robert Peston followed the day’s events。

　　The Murdochs’ evidence to MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee had its moments of drama but few moments of revelation. There were elements of both when James Murdoch, the chairman of News International, confirmed that his company has been continuing to pay the legal expenses of Glen Mulcaire, the private detective hired by the News of the World to illegally hack the phones of individuals. There are News Corporation investors who believe that at the age of 80 it might now be time for Rupert Murdoch to hand over the executive reins of the global media empire he created. And his performance today probably won’t dissuade

　　them that the moment may have come. Although Mr Murdoch himself insisted he is the right man to correct the News of the World’s sins in the past, sins that went on for years, but which Mr Murdoch didn’t notice in their enormity till the revelations a fortnight ago that the most vulnerable individuals’ phones had been hacked。

　　The parliamentary hearing had to be suspended for a time when a member of the public threw what appeared to be a plate of shaving foam at Mr Murdoch. Police arrested the man and when the hearing resumed, members of the public were excluded. A member of parliament Chris Bryant was there, he described what he saw。

　　"Somebody suddenly appeared run from the left and had some kind of plastic plate with shaving foam on it and shout it at Rupert Murdoch’s face. I think it’s just despicable. You know, there’s a really serious set of questions people are answering and the whole country wanted to hear answers."

　　Earlier, Britain’s two most senior police officers who both resigned over the hacking scandal faced questions from another parliamentary committee. Assistant commissioner John Yates said he could confidently predict that only a very small number of police officers would be jailed as a result of investigations into alleged illegal payments by journalists. The head of the Metropolitan Police Paul Stephenson said nearly a quarter of the forces Public Affairs Department once worked for Rupert Murdoch’s News International。

　　World News from the BBC

　　联合国宣布索马里南部部分地区进入饥荒状态

　　The United Nations is preparing to declare a famine

　　in parts of Somalia. Across the East Africa, estimated 10 million people have been affected by the worst drought in more than half a century. Multiple sources say the UN will announce on Wednesday that conditions have deteriorated to such an extent that famine has returned to the region for the first time in 19 years。

　　IMF警告：尽快修复欧元区危机 否则风险蔓延全球

　　The International Monetary Fund has warned that the European debt crisis could have major global consequences

　　if it’s not dealt with quickly. The IMF said decisive action was critical to prevent the financial problems in countries such as Greece from spreading to major European economies. Our economics correspondent Andrew Walker reports。

　　The IMF paints a picture of striking contrast. The recovery in the core of the euro area, countries such as Germany, is resilient. Other member countries are in what the report calls "dire shape". There was a call for decisive action including clarity about the role of private sector creditors of governments. Europe’s been wrangling inclusively for weeks about whether banks should help with a second bailout of Greece. The IMF also says countries should press ahead with reducing their borrowing needs and that Europe should increase the size of its rescue loan facility。

　　法医研究组确认智利前总统阿连德系自杀身亡

　　A team of international experts has concluded that the former President of Chile Salvador Allende, killed himself during the 1973 military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. A detailed report was released two months after Mr Allende’s body was exhumed as part of an inquiry into his death。

　　法国司法部询问前IMF总裁卡恩家人

　　Judicial officials in France say they’ve questioned family members of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief, over allegations that he tried to rape a young writer. Those questioned were the socialist politician’s ex-wife and their daughter Camille, both of whom were once close to the complainant Tristane Banon. Mr Strauss-Kahn denies the allegation that an assault took place in 2003.

　　BBC News